Town Born : : The Political Economy of New England from Its Founding to the Revolution /

Town Born : : The Political Economy of New England from Its Founding to the Revolution / / Barry Levy.

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In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, British colonists found the New World full of resources. With land readily available but workers in short supply, settlers developed coercive forms of labor-indentured servitude and chattel slavery-in order to produce staple export crops like rice, wheat,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Levy, Barry,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2010
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Early American Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; 15 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • PART I. Foundations
  • Chapter one. Political Economy
  • Chapter two. Stripes
  • Chapter three. Settlement
  • PART II. Development
  • Chapter four. Political Fabric
  • Chapter five. Of Wharves and Men
  • Chapter seven. Crews
  • PART III. Town People
  • Chapter eight. Orphans
  • Chapter nine. Prodigals or Milquetoasts?
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Selected primary sources
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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